$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 28: 60,000/120,000/15,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 12
Average Stack: 4,749,000 (40 bb)

Eight starting flights and a long Day 2 were not enough to crown our Event 1 champion. There are 12 players remaining with a chance at the $230,000 top prize with Philly’s Thai Ha leading the way.

The big opening event of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open drew 4,075 entrants but most of them are gone to leave us with two short-handed tables remaining for some extra Day 3 action.

Former chip leader Gedeminas Kiuberas has the shortest stack of those returning but he can still effectively push around his 13 big blinds. With the average stack sitting at 40 big blinds, there’s still plenty of play and we expect a long battle as the 60-minute blind levels crawl higher.

Chip bags are on the table, players are taking their seats, and action will be back underway in a few minutes.

Table 7
Seat 1: David Shaw – 2,460,000 (21 bb)
Seat 2: Evgeniy Catane – 1,815,000 (15 bb)
Seat 3: Mark Johnson Jr. – 6,345,000 (53 bb)
Seat 4:
Seat 5: Jordan Meltzer – 7,430,000 (64 bb)
Seat 6:
Seat 7:
Seat 8: Thai Ha – 10,400,000 (87 bb)
Seat 9: Claudio Piedrabuena – 3,240,000 (27 bb)

Table 8
Seat 1:
Seat 2: Gedeminas Kiuberas – 1,510,000 (13 bb)
Seat 3:
Seat 4: Raminder Singh – 3,715,000 (31 bb)
Seat 5: Richard Hutchings – 8,445,000 (70 bb)
Seat 6: David Prociak – 2,820,000 (24 bb)
Seat 7:
Seat 8: Ronald Campillo – 3,240,000 (27 bb)
Seat 9: Daniel Perez Escobar – 5,650,000 (47 bb)

Chip counts:

1. Thai Ha – 10,420,000 (87 bb)
2. Richard Hutchings – 8,420,000 (70 bb)
3. Jordan Meltzer – 7,630,000 (64 bb)
4. Mark Johnson Jr. – 6,345,000 (53 bb)
5. Daniel Perez Escobar – 5,650,000 (47 bb)
6. Raminder Singh – 3,715,000 (31 bb)
7. Ronald Campillo – 3,240,000 (27 bb)
8. Claudio Piedrabuena – 3,230,000 (27 bb)
9. David Prociak – 2,820,000 (24 bb)
10. David Shaw – 2,460,000 (21 bb)
11. Evgeniy Catane – 1,815,000 (15 bb)
12. Gedeminas Kiuberas – 1,510,000 (13 bb)